Abstract: A method for monitoring health of processes includes a compute device having a performance monitoring parameter manager and an analytics engine. The compute device accesses performance monitoring parameters associated with a monitored process of the compute device. The compute device samples one or more hardware counters associated with the monitored process and applies a performance monitor filter to the sampled one or more hardware counters to generate hardware counter values. The compute device performs a process fault check on the monitored process based on the hardware counter values and the performance monitoring parameters.

Abstract: Technologies for distributing network packet workload are disclosed. A compute device may receive a network packet and determine network packet extrinsic entropy information that is based on information that is not part of the contents of the network packet, such as an arrival time of the network packet. The compute device may use the extrinsic entropy information to assign the network packet to one of several packet processing queues. Since the assignment of network packets to the packet processing queues depend at least in part on extrinsic entropy information, similar or even identical packets will not necessarily be assigned to the same packet processing queue.

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a network element that can be configured to determine a pre-execution performance test, where the pre-execution performance test is at least partially based on requirements for a process to be executed, cause the pre-execution performance test to be executed on a platform before the process is executed on the platform, where the platform is a dynamically allocated group of resources, analyze results of the pre-execution performance test, and cause the process to be executed on the platform if the results of the pre-execution performance test satisfy a condition. In an example, the process is a virtual network function.

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a network element that can be configured to receive a link monitoring message, determine one or more resources associated with the link monitoring message, determine a status of each of the one or more resources, and send a response that provides an indication of the status of each of the one or more resources. In an example, the link monitoring is part of a bidirectional forwarding detection packet.

Abstract: There is disclosed in an example, a computing apparatus, including: a processor having a resource direction capability; and one or more logic elements providing a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) engine to: store for a virtual machine (VM) an extended performance profile, comprising a metric from the resource direction capability.